MANIPULATION AND USES OF BAR 

 AND FRAME HIVES. 



|AVING, at page 84, given a description of the me- 

 chanical arrangements of bar and frame hives,, 

 the next thing iSj to describe the mode of introducing the 

 bees, and of thus bringing the humane and scientific hives 

 into operation. The swarm should be first hived into a 

 common straw hive from the bough or shrub upon which 

 they may have alighted ; place this hive, into which we 

 will suppose the bees have been shaken, on the ground, 

 propped up on one side with a brick or a flower-pot, 

 or anything of the sort that may be handy, in order that 

 straggler-bees may join the swarm. The spot selected 

 for this should be as shady an one as can be found, near 

 to the place where the swarm settled ; or it may be 

 shaded from the rays of the sun by fixing matting on two 

 poles, so as to prevent the heat falling on the hive ; 

 spread a sheet or cloth on the ground where an even 



